Moratuwa Varsity team brings credit to Sri Lanka

The team from the University of Moratuwa represented Sri Lanka at the World Finals of the CIMA Global Business Challenge (CGBC) competition secured the runners-up position at the World Finals held in Singapore at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

This team consisting of Channa Gunasekara, Harinda Gunathilaka, Thusitha Chandrapala and Dulini Mudunkotuwa, were put together by the Department of Management of Technology (MOT) which earlier won the Sri Lankan finals beating other teams from other local universities.

This is a significant achievement for the University of Moratuwa considering that the then world finals fielded seven other teams from UK (University of Sussex), Ireland (Latterkenny Institute of Technology), China (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics), Singapore (National University of Singapore), Malaysia (Taylors University College), India (Jain University) and Hong Kong (Chinese University of Hong Kong).

The team from Hong Kong were judged as the Champions but only by a very narrow margin over the team from Sri Lanka which beat off the rest of competition to secure their Runner up position.

This team was coached and mentored by I. Mahakalanda, lecturer, Department of Management of Technology and Mario Fonseka (as the external coach and mentor).

The competition was based on a past TCOPCIMA case study.